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clock rescuing, distributing relief materials,<br />

providing food and essential health care etc. It has<br />

volunteers from local region who are well aware<br />

of the topography and hence reaching far flung<br />

areas to locate the needy people, waiting to be<br />

evacuated to safer locations, in the first place and<br />

provide them with the needed help which other<br />

agencies involved aren’t able to effectively do , as<br />

they are unaware of the terrain.<br />

From 19 th of August 2008 itself, the Samiti set up<br />

7 Sewa Centres/Camps in seven most affected<br />

districts to provide immediate relief, food, shelter<br />

and treating sick people on arrival. The seven<br />

centres are as mentioned below: Raghopur; Vivah<br />

Bhawan, Shankar Chawk, Saharsa; Bihariganj,<br />

Madhepura : Sewa Bharati Office, Madhubani<br />

Chawk, Purnea; Sangh Karyalaya, Shiv Mandir<br />

Chawk, Katihar; Sangh Karyalaya, Nawgachhia<br />

and Shiv Mandir, Forbisganj, Araria<br />

Though the people have started moving back to<br />

their homes due to receding flood waters, over<br />

3000 people are still there in our relief camp<br />

operating from Zila School in Saharsa district of<br />

Bihar.<br />

Distribution of relief materials is still being done<br />

from all 7 centres and 21 sub-centres and a regular<br />

community kitchen is in operation to provide them<br />

food and safe drinking water.<br />

On 7 th of September, Baba Ramdev, Acharya<br />

Balkrishan and R K Sinha visited our relief centre<br />

at Zila School, Saharsa, where he performed<br />

Bharat Mata pujan. Speaking on the occasion, he<br />

praised the good work being done by Seva Bharati<br />

volunteers during this disaster, and went ahead<br />

saying that other <strong>org</strong>anizations should also do<br />

similar things to serve the needy.<br />

From the 5 th of September, a new relief centre has<br />

been started at Kodiyapatti in Triveniganj block of<br />

Saharsa, catering about 4000 people. This centre is<br />

12 KM from the Triveniganj block headquaters<br />

and can only be reached by boats. Team of<br />

Doctors from Sewa Bharati, Gorakhpur has set up<br />

a medical camp to treat the flood victims in the<br />

village Kodiapatti.<br />

6. SIX BHARATIYAS IN FORBES' YOUNG<br />

ASIAN RICH LIST: Six Bharatiyas, including<br />

Ranbaxy promoter family's Malvinder and<br />

Shivinder Singh, Suzlon's Girish Tanti and<br />

2<br />

Indiabulls' Sameer Gehlaut, have made it to a list<br />

of 15 youngest Asian billionaires, compiled by<br />

business magazine Forbes.<br />

"The country's millionaires jumped 23% last year.<br />

The billionaire count soared to 53 from 36 the<br />

previous year," Forbes said, adding that Bharat has<br />

maintained its pace in the money race.<br />

Other Bharatiyas on the list include real estate firm<br />

Oberoi Constructions' Vikas Oberoi and online<br />

gambling entity PartyGaming's founder Anurag<br />

Dikshit.<br />

7. MY EXPERIENCE DURING MY LAST<br />

TRIP TO BHARAT: In my last trip to Bharat, I<br />

stayed in my village for 17 days which is my<br />

longest stay in my village after 1983. I wanted to<br />

Utilize this stay for some social service. Yoga and<br />

accupressure being my favourite topics, I<br />

mobilized my fellow villagers, explained them the<br />

benefits of these free medical treatment<br />

techniques. They were very interested to learn it.<br />

Invited them in the morning at 5:30am and had<br />

one and a half hour session for several days. It<br />

brought very exciting results. Over 50 of them,<br />

Men, women, young, adults and children are<br />

performing pranayam, yoga postures and<br />

accupressure every day. My sister had severe<br />

thyroid and low blood pressure problem. She was<br />

on medicine everyday. She stopped the medicine,<br />

the day she started the accupressure and pranayam.<br />

Now she is very happy to learn these. She feels<br />

more strength and no fainting any more. I had to<br />

see so many patients with different diseases like<br />

thyroid, stomach pain, liver problem, high sugar<br />

and others.<br />

They all feel happy now. My mom, who is 75<br />

years old, had chronic pain in her leg. She is<br />

practicing both pranayam and accupressure every<br />

day. She is very happy to get rid of her leg pain.<br />

Another problem I found was heavy smoking and<br />

tobacco use. I worked with 3 of them. I am happy<br />

to mention that 2 of them, both my elder cousins<br />

have stopped it for ever. They mentioned that they<br />

feel better doing pranayam, than smoking. I tried<br />

to take a few more initiative with other issues, but<br />

could succeed because of shortage of time.<br />

Though I went to take care of the final rites of my<br />

father, I enjoyed doing these sewa works in my<br />

spare time. -- Arun K Sharma, USA

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